Army sends media imagery from Iraq at push of button

[Wickerman]

I believe this to be new news, complete with today's date - if not, I am certain our ever so competent mod crew will quickly silence the Army imagery... :P

Seems we will no longer have to worry about only negative press reports from Iraq. Why pay for critical news when for free you can hook into the Army's $6.3 million dollar propoganda machine... :shrug:

http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=6067
Army sends media imagery from Iraq at push of button

By Justin Ward
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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 21, 2004) – No longer will the media in small towns nationwide need to wait for CNN or FOX to get news from Iraq. They can now do it themselves.

This week, the Army launched a $6.3 million project called the Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System, a system that allows Army news crews in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan – called Mobile Public Affairs Detachments – to beam text, photos and footage to a “teleport” in Atlanta.

DVIDS users in the states, ranging from the civilian media to military personnel seeking to acquire information from the field, will then be able to acquire the real-time, broadcast-quality products from a centralized, archived database via the satellite feed. Or, if they want to conduct live press briefings or interviews, they can request it, officials said.

The service is free.

The principle benefit of the system, said Col. Rick Thomas, public affairs officer for Third Army, based at Fort McPherson, Ga., is to provide deployed commanders and concerned groups the ability to keep in touch with each other, whether through press briefings, interviews or other medium.

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[Caution]

1. Push buttom propaganda!

Please don't pay attention to the media now that they are waking up! we've got our own news service and you can see what we wish you to see at any time. thanks!

[LittleApple81]

2. By golly, who taught English to these people?

"The principle benefit of the system" should be principal, not principle. Unless it is a Freudian slip and they wanted to say they are going to transmit principles!

and

"press briefings, interviews or other medium." Other media, not other medium.
Hmmmmm... maybe we should be spending more money on schools instead of wars??? You think?

[AwakeAtLast]

3. You wouldn't believe the errors I see.

I think about every piece of paper that has been sent to me from the Army (husband is National Guard) has some form of misspelling, grammatical error, or both. Some of them are outrageous! I wish I had something near me to use as an example, but trust me, it would make your English teacher's head blow off!

[tom_paine]

4. Wow, now the Pravda comes straight from Imperial Kitchens!

Delivered piping hot and fresh to your door!

My God, so this is just a taste of life in the Old Soviet Union.

More on the way.

[PATRICK]

5. Worth looking at

for the very simple reason that sooner or later(sooner) a government project like this will massively screw up in ways that the media pros would not.

More than likely it will backfire big time if someone is just paying attention even to the slanted blather or lack of evidence. The papers that will fall for this are any not presently using Fox News as their main source and the really insidious slant of AP, etc. will be replaced by goofs.

[Wickerman]

6. I think you have a point

some crap will slip out - would be worth monitoring. I hope some eq. of the way back machine keeps history of this